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Our very best selling titles in the past few months.

Iona Abbey Worship Book

The services and resources in The Iona Abbey Worship Book reflect the Iona Community's commitment to the belief that worship is all that we are and all that we do, both inside and outside the church, with no division into the sacred and the secular.

Around a Thin Place

For centuries pilgrims have travelled to the isle of Iona in search of the sacred, inspired by the example of St Columba, a 6th-century Irish monk who founded a monastery there, and whose influence is felt to the present day.

E-Prayers & Liturgies

Recent Books, CDs & DVDs

Sally Foster-Fulton

RRP: £11.50

£9.99

Reflections, meditations, prayers and liturgies for Holy Week following the journey of Jesus from Palm Sunday to Easter Day. A book which affirms that, even in the darkness of betrayal and denial and death, we can rise up and live different lives: where the justice, peace and love poured out in Christ’s life can be resurrected in our own.

Chris Polhill

RRP: £8.99

£7.99

The spiritual encounter with the ‘otherness’ that Christians call God is part of the experience of being human, recognised down the ages. In this book you will find a wide variety of spiritual experiences openly explored – from the mystical to the practical, from very personal reflections, to stories with passion for social justice.

Bruce C Ball

RRP: £12.50

£9.99

Aimed at all concerned about the environment, this book presents a radical vision of the future of farming and community life, based on hidden insights from the life and spirit of the soil and on the author’s experiences of growing up in the small, agricultural community of Clatt in North-East Scotland. With a Foreword by Alastair McIntosh, author of Soil and Soul.

Ruth Burgess

RRP: £16.99

£14.99

A resource book for planning baptisms, naming ceremonies, weddings and civil partnerships and marking the many other significant moments of our nights and days. There are resources that do not assume any faith commitment, as well as ones that reflect Christian belief.

Joy Mead

RRP: £10.50

£8.99

Poems from Iona Community member Joy Mead. They come from the beauty of the glimpsed moment … a precious jewel held for a short time amid the pain and sorrow of the world, then let go into the bigger picture … The beauty is what we remember, what gives the moment its significance.

Jan Sutch Pickard

RRP: £8.99

£7.99

‘Walk humbly with God …’ Advent is a time of wonder and waiting – but that’s not a passive thing. We need to walk into Advent with our eyes open. Join us on a cheerful, thoughtful, justice-seeking journey towards Bethlehem, a journey day by day through Advent. Jan Sutch Pickard is a former Warden of Iona Abbey, who has also been Vice President of the Methodist Conference and an Ecumenical Accompanier.

Tom Gordon

RRP: £13.50

£11.99

A year's worth of stories and reflections to encourage us to ‘look well’ to the insights and inspiration we might need to live each of the 365 days as best we can, with a more hopeful vision for tomorrow.

Alastair McIntosh

RRP: £11.50

£9.99

This anthology shares the best of Alastair McIntosh's BBC radio Prayer and Thought for the Day pieces from nearly a decade. Here is that of God, transcendent, yet also here and now, immanent, within the day’s hard news. Alastair is a Quaker and author of books including Soil and Soul and Island Spirituality.

Dave Broom

RRP: £13.50

£11.99

A series of resources and complete liturgies for the major services of Holy Week. The book began life in community on Iona, and includes an Easter pilgrimage. Can be used in a church or house group or for private reflection, to deepen the experience of Easter – and inspire action.

Martin Lönnebo, Carolina Welin, Carolina Johnasson

RRP: £10.50

£8.99

A paperback edition of the previous hardback book. The pearls are now sold separately. You can also buy the book and pearls together as a package for a reduced price. The Pearls of Life are used by thousands of people today as a contemporary aid to prayer. This book, featuring full-colour photos, describes the meaning of the pearls and how to use them.

How can a little circle of eighteen glass and ceramic beads make a difference in our frantic lives? Bishop Martin Lönnebo’s contemporary aid to prayer has a pearl for each kind of occasion. Hold on to a pearl, be still for a moment, and get in touch with your dreams and prayers. Or make a point of setting aside a moment every day for stillness and a conversation with God.

Ruth Burgess

RRP: £16.99

£14.99

A resource book for anyone who is planning a funeral. You may be a family member or a friend of someone who has died. You may be planning your own funeral. You may arrange and conduct funerals professionally. Here you will find an abundance of words and ideas for celebrating a life in ways that are personal and honest.

Rachel Mann

RRP: £11.50

£9.99

Powerful and moving readings, stories and poems for Easter. Rachel Mann writes with the voices of the characters involved in the biblical accounts of passion and resurrection, unafraid to explore the darkest aspects evoked by these events.

Sally Foster-Fulton

RRP: £11.50

£9.99

An Advent collection of prayers, meditations, poems and a few wee plays. A rich resource, from an original voice, for personal reflection and for congregations and small groups searching for material relevant to the 21st century. The author is Associate Minister at Dunblane Cathedral and Convener of the Church and Society Council of the Church of Scotland.

Neil Paynter

RRP: £10.50

£8.99

For many people prayer is difficult. This new collection of prayers from the Iona Community helps us to be less bothered about what we should be saying when we pray. We can read a prayer and then sit quietly for a few minutes, allowing the particular words and thoughts to meet with our inner self, with our soul, which is linked to the energies and wisdom of the Creator of all things.

David Osborne

RRP: £13.50

£10.99

Climate change, pollution and diminishing resources mean that the future will be difficult for life on earth. We need the courage to face up to what is happening, the determination to work at the problems and the freedom to let go of the old ways of living which are causing such damage to the earth. David Osborne tells of a long pilgrimage on foot to the island of Iona, an ancient centre of Celtic Christianity, and draws on the Bible, the Christian tradition and other sources of wisdom to suggest the qualities we need to develop in ourselves for the journey we face into the future.

Ruth Sewell, Jan Sellers & Di Williams

RRP: £11.50

£9.99

The labyrinth as a tool for contemplation and inspiration continues to gain popularity in today's world. For those who want to learn more and perhaps use the labyrinth in their own situation, this book offers ideas and examples of its use in various contexts, from schools and universities to hospices and secure hospitals.

Ghillean Prance

1 Review(s)

RRP: £10.50

£8.99

In this book of biblical reflections Eden Project Scientific Director Ghillean Prance draws richly from his experiences exploring the Amazon and many other regions, together with his knowledge of references to plants and animals in the Bible, to help us wonder at the marvels of nature and so to treat God's creation with reverence and more respect.

Peter Millar

RRP: £11.50

£9.99

A book of reflections reaffirming the fundamental connection between belief in God and commitment to and awareness of God’s world, and calling us to recommit ourselves to the way of love in our uncertain times.

Neil Paynter

RRP: £11.50

£9.99

Short daily readings for the whole year. Short because sometimes it feels like the world is so crowded with words that it is difficult to focus on the Word. A book for those who feel themselves travelling at an increasingly frantic pace each day, and are hungry for snatches of nourishment to feed their souls.

Rachel Mann

RRP: £11.50

£9.99

A true story about searching for one’s authentic self in the company of the Living God. Rachel Mann has died many ‘deaths’ in the process, not the least of which was a change of sex, as well as coming to terms with chronic illness and disability.

Recent E-Books

Sally Foster-Fulton

RRP: £7.49

£6.80ex VAT

Reflections, meditations, prayers and liturgies for Holy Week following the journey of Jesus from Palm Sunday to Easter Day. A book which affirms that, even in the darkness of betrayal and denial and death, we can rise up and live different lives: where the justice, peace and love poured out in Christ’s life can be resurrected in our own.

Chris Polhill

£4.90ex VAT

The spiritual encounter with the ‘otherness’ that Christians call God is part of the experience of being human, recognised down the ages. In this book you will find a wide variety of spiritual experiences openly explored – from the mystical to the practical, from very personal reflections, to stories with passion for social justice.

Bruce C Ball

RRP: £7.49

£6.80ex VAT

Aimed at all concerned about the environment, this book presents a radical vision of the future of farming and community life, based on hidden insights from the life and spirit of the soil and on the author’s experiences of growing up in the small, agricultural community of Clatt in North-East Scotland. With a Foreword by Alastair McIntosh, author of Soil and Soul.

Ruth Burgess

RRP: £10.90

£10.20ex VAT

A resource book for planning baptisms, naming ceremonies, weddings and civil partnerships and marking the many other significant moments of our nights and days. There are resources that do not assume any faith commitment, as well as ones that reflect Christian belief.

Joy Mead

RRP: £6.50

£5.10ex VAT

Poems from Iona Community member Joy Mead. They come from the beauty of the glimpsed moment … a precious jewel held for a short time amid the pain and sorrow of the world, then let go into the bigger picture … The beauty is what we remember, what gives the moment its significance.

Jan Sutch Pickard

RRP: £5.20

£4.50ex VAT

‘Walk humbly with God …’ Advent is a time of wonder and waiting – but that’s not a passive thing. We need to walk into Advent with our eyes open. Join us on a cheerful, thoughtful, justice-seeking journey towards Bethlehem, a journey day by day through Advent. Jan Sutch Pickard is a former Warden of Iona Abbey, who has also been Vice President of the Methodist Conference and an Ecumenical Accompanier.

Tom Gordon

RRP: £8.50

£8.10ex VAT

A year's worth of stories and reflections to encourage us to ‘look well’ to the insights and inspiration we might need to live each of the 365 days as best we can, with a more hopeful vision for tomorrow.

Alastair McIntosh

RRP: £7.80

£6.80ex VAT

This anthology shares the best of Alastair McIntosh's BBC radio Prayer and Thought for the Day pieces from nearly a decade. Here is that of God, transcendent, yet also here and now, immanent, within the day’s hard news. Alastair is a Quaker and author of books including Soil and Soul and Island Spirituality.

Dave Broom

RRP: £8.50

£7.80ex VAT

A series of resources and complete liturgies for the major services of Holy Week. The book began life in community on Iona, and includes an Easter pilgrimage. Can be used in a church or house group or for private reflection, to deepen the experience of Easter – and inspire action.

Rachel Mann

RRP: £7.80

£6.80ex VAT

Powerful and moving readings, stories and poems for Easter. Rachel Mann writes with the voices of the characters involved in the biblical accounts of passion and resurrection, unafraid to explore the darkest aspects evoked by these events.

Ruth Burgess

RRP: £10.90

£10.20ex VAT

A resource book for anyone who is planning a funeral. You may be a family member or a friend of someone who has died. You may be planning your own funeral. You may arrange and conduct funerals professionally. Here you will find an abundance of words and ideas for celebrating a life in ways that are personal and honest.

Sally Foster-Fulton

RRP: £7.80

£6.80ex VAT

An Advent collection of prayers, meditations, poems and a few wee plays. A rich resource, from an original voice, for personal reflection and for congregations and small groups searching for material relevant to the 21st century. The author is Associate Minister at Dunblane Cathedral and Convener of the Church and Society Council of the Church of Scotland.

Neil Paynter

RRP: £6.50

£5.10ex VAT

For many people prayer is difficult. This new collection of prayers from the Iona Community helps us to be less bothered about what we should be saying when we pray. We can read a prayer and then sit quietly for a few minutes, allowing the particular words and thoughts to meet with our inner self, with our soul, which is linked to the energies and wisdom of the Creator of all things.

Ruth Harvey

RRP: £7.80

£6.80ex VAT

An original collection of stories, reflections, meditations, poems, songs and dialogues about recalling the wisdom of our own childhood thoughts and being open to what children in our midst have to share with us about God, faith, life, death and spirituality.

Ian Bradley

RRP: £7.80

£6.80ex VAT

lan Bradley examines the life, character and achievements of St Columba and attempts to strip away the layers of myth and historical distortion that have grown up around accounts of Columba’s life and heritage. He also explores the distinctive nature of Columban Christianity and its message – not always a comfortable one – for us today. Written originally for the 1400th anniversary in 1997 of Columba's death.

Ian M Fraser

RRP: £8.50

£7.80ex VAT

Ian Fraser has been a prophet in our land – and far beyond – for the lifetimes of most of us. Here he reflects on the banking crisis and the world order, getting rid of war, Israel and Palestine, the USA and Cuba, fundamentalism, proselytism and evangelism, law and grace, the theology of fashion and much more.

Ghillean Prance

RRP: £6.50

£5.10ex VAT

In this book of biblical reflections Eden Project Scientific Director Ghillean Prance draws richly from his experiences exploring the Amazon and many other regions, together with his knowledge of references to plants and animals in the Bible, to help us wonder at the marvels of nature and so to treat God's creation with reverence and more respect.

David Osborne

RRP: £8.90

£8.50ex VAT

Climate change, pollution and diminishing resources mean that the future will be difficult for life on earth. We need the courage to face up to what is happening, the determination to work at the problems and the freedom to let go of the old ways of living which are causing such damage to the earth. David Osborne tells of a long pilgrimage on foot to the island of Iona, an ancient centre of Celtic Christianity, and draws on the Bible, the Christian tradition and other sources of wisdom to suggest the qualities we need to develop in ourselves for the journey we face into the future.

Jacqueline Ley

RRP: £5.20

£4.50ex VAT

When Jacqueline Ley's 23-year-old son told her that he was gay, she was shocked and hurt. Her fundamentalist Christian background told her that homosexuality was sinful and that her son had placed himself beyond the pale. But she underwent a remarkable transformation of attitude …

Joy Mead

RRP: £7.80

£6.80ex VAT

A book about small things and little occasions, the smells, colours, sounds, the looking, perceiving, thinking, remembering of our lives and the love that makes them significant. In a mix of poems, stories and material suitable for private or public reflection it explores our knowing and our unknowing. It celebrates the validity of all experience.

Peter Millar

RRP: £7.80

£6.80ex VAT

A book of reflections reaffirming the fundamental connection between belief in God and commitment to and awareness of God’s world, and calling us to recommit ourselves to the way of love in our uncertain times.

Ruth Sewell, Jan Sellers & Di Williams

RRP: £9.36

£6.80ex VAT

The labyrinth as a tool for contemplation and inspiration continues to gain popularity in today's world. For those who want to learn more and perhaps use the labyrinth in their own situation, this book offers ideas and examples of its use in various contexts, from schools and universities to hospices and secure hospitals.

Neil Paynter

RRP: £7.80

£6.80ex VAT

Short daily readings for the whole year. Short because sometimes it feels like the world is so crowded with words that it is difficult to focus on the Word. A book for those who feel themselves travelling at an increasingly frantic pace each day, and are hungry for snatches of nourishment to feed their souls.

Neil Paynter

RRP: £6.50

£5.10ex VAT

Fifty new prayers from young and old and from folk around the globe – from Glasgow to Cincinnati, from Malawi to Alaska – that might be used in a daily discipline, many on the concerns of the Iona Community  poverty and economic justice, welcome and hospitality, interfaith dialogue, church renewal, peacemaking.

Ruth Burgess

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RRP: £7.80

£6.80ex VAT

A collection of blessings for the people, celebrations, sadnesses, artefacts, special occasions and journeys of our lives. It also explores the tradition of blessings, including biblical and Celtic, and offers ideas and resources to encourage readers...

Joy Mead

RRP: £8.20

£7.50ex VAT

Through poems and reflections Joy Mead imagines the women mentioned in the Bible as central to their own stories, rather than appearing briefly on the margins of a narrative which reflects a world perceived and led by men.

Rachel Mann

RRP: £7.80

£6.80ex VAT

A true story about searching for ones authentic self in the company of the Living God. Rachel Mann has died many deaths in the process, not the least of which was a change of sex, as well as coming to terms with chronic illness and disability.

Chris King

RRP: £6.50

£5.10ex VAT

A resource for individuals and groups wishing to explore the Iona Community's integrated approach to spirituality in the space of four weeks. Each week covers an area of the Communitys engagement and the days include a community experience, a Bible reading, material for reflection, prayers and thoughts to ponder.

Recent E-Prayer & Liturgies

Tom Gordon

£3.50ex VAT

Digital download: Modern parables for each day of Holy Week, from Passion/Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday, taken from Tom's book With an Open Eye. These stories relate to lectionary cycle B and offer reflections on life and faith that help us to be aware of familiar things in a new and imaginative way. 39 pages.

Dave Broom

£2.55ex VAT

Digital download: A service for the dawn of Easter Sunday, ideal for the open air rather than inside a church building. A special time of the morning on a very special day. From the book The Cross in the Marketplace. 11 pages.

Dave Broom

£2.80ex VAT

Digital download: Meditations for Good Friday based on experiences of Iona Community island staff who have worked with people on the edge socially, economically and emotionally. Each meditation includes reference to a Bible passage and can be used for personal reflection or as part of a service. From the book The Cross in the Marketplace. 16 pages.

Dave Broom

£2.40ex VAT

Digital download: A simple service of lamentation for Good Friday that can be used by groups of 10 or 12 people in various locations such as people’s homes or in different parts of a church building. From the book The Cross in the Marketplace. 8 pages.

Dave Broom

£4.10ex VAT

Digital download: An extensive Stations of the Cross with, at each station, a Bible reading and a testimony from a person who witnessed one of the events in the story. This is very much a community event in which everyone can be involved. Taken from the book The Cross in the Marketplace. 40 pages.

Dave Broom

£2.60ex VAT

Digital download: A ceremony of foot-washing, Agape or Communion, the stripping of the church, and a vigil for ‘the disappeared’ and for prisoners of conscience. Taken from the book The Cross in the Marketplace. 13 pages.

Dave Broom

£3.90ex VAT

Digital download: A pilgrimage for the start of Holy Week, mainly in the form of dramatic scripts for each stopping point. Although based on the weekly Iona pilgrimage, it can be adapted for any local environment, including urban ones, or even be used within the church itself. Taken from the book The Cross in the Marketplace, by Dave Broom. 34 pages.

Dave Broom

£2.30ex VAT

Digital download: A service for the day when Jesus demonstrates what his claim to messiahship really means and what his Kingdom is really about – for committing ourselves to the values of the upside-down Kingdom of the unlikely Messiah Jesus, who stands today in the heart of the military-industrial complex and declares: 'Peace.' Taken from the book The Cross in the Marketplace, by Dave Broom. 7 pages.

Pat Bennett

£2.30ex VAT

Digital download: A Communion service for Lent, focusing on journeying through the desert, exploring our own uncharted places and making new choices for the future. 7 pages. PowerPoint version also available.

Ruth Burgess

£2.00ex VAT

Digital download: A collection of quotes and blessings from the Bible and the Carmina Gadelica, with an added blessing by Ruth Burgess, all suitable for baptisms, naming ceremonies and dedications. Taken from the book Moments of Our Nights and Days, by Ruth Burgess. 5 pages.

Pat Bennett

£2.30ex VAT

PDF download: A Communion liturgy for celebrating Epiphany, encouraging us to recognise the presence of God and the radical possibilities flowing from that understanding. 7 pages. PowerPoint version also available.

Pat Bennett

Tom Gordon

£3.00ex VAT

Digital download: Modern parables for the four Sundays of Advent and Christmas Day, taken from Tom's book With An Open Eye. These stories relate to lectionary cycle B and offer insights into issues of universal relevance in an immediate, contemporary and imaginative way. 25 pages.